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Clawson named head football coach
December 10, 2013 | Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories
Dave Clawson today was named as the 32nd head football coach in Wake Forest history. Clawson, the head coach at Bowling Green State for the past five seasons, led the Falcons to the 2013 Mid-American Conference championship on Friday with a 47-27 win over No. 16 Northern Illinois.
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Imagining the next ‘big idea’
December 9, 2013 | Alumni, Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, School of Business, Student, Top Stories
James Beshara (’08), CEO and co-founder of Crowdtilt, a social group-funding platform, came to campus to meet with student innovators and shared ideas with faculty on how to prepare students to launch start-ups after graduation.
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Students fight hunger for children
December 5, 2013 | Campus Life, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, School of Business, School of Law, Student, Top Stories
Students at the School of Business turned an assignment about food insecurity and hunger in Forsyth County into a competition that raised $20,000 to feed school children over the holiday break. They presented a check to Forsyth Backpack, a nonprofit agency founded by School of Law professor Barbara Lentz.
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O’Connell named Rhodes Scholar
November 24, 2013 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Recognition, Scholars, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest graduate James M. O’Connell has been named a Rhodes Scholar. O’Connell, who is from Tampa, Fla., graduated summa cum laude in May 2013 with a bachelor of arts in politics and international affairs. He plans to complete a masters in public policy.
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From one forest to another
November 19, 2013 | For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
A flying, insect-like robot built and tested by biology graduate student Max Messinger and a team of WFU researchers will give an unprecedented look at Peru’s tropical cloud forest, one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems and a key indicator of global climate change.
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Take a guess or skip the question
November 18, 2013 | Admissions, Faculty, For Parents, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Wake Forest College
If you’re taking the SAT and you’re not positive you know the correct answer, do you skip or guess? Previous studies suggest that your strategy may be very different from that of the student sitting next to you. A faculty-student research team in economics is looking for answers.
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Still life vs. real life
November 13, 2013 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Humanities Highlights 2013-2014, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Biology professor Kathy Kron and the 11 students enrolled in Biology 105: Plants & People met at Reynolda House Museum of American Art to learn firsthand how biology is incorporated in the current exhibition, “Things Wondrous and Humble: American Still Life.”
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Toxic tiger moth
November 8, 2013 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A battle for evolutionary dominance is raging in Arizona between the tiger moth and the echo-locating bat. New research being done by Wake Forest shows the tiger moth currently has the upper hand.
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Angelou champions dignified discourse
November 7, 2013 | Alumni, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories
Award-winning poet, author and Civil Rights activist Maya Angelou encouraged a standing-room only crowd to take individual responsibility for creating a community of kindness and respect. The event marked the first 30 days of a yearlong, campus-wide “Dignity and Respect Campaign.”
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Character study stands out
November 5, 2013 | Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Humanities Highlights 2013-2014, Research, Top Stories
From discovering how text messages can help build empathy to figuring out how character and personality affect ethical behavior on the job, the Character Project has led to remarkable advances in the study of human nature, values, morals and decision-making. The next step? Sharing what scholars have learned about character with the public.
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